The Day in Photos - 2/27/13

Eric J. Shelton/Reporter-News Grace Museum's Director of Education Kathryn Mitchell, left, and Special Programs Coordinator Roxane Bennett hang youths' artwork on the second floor of the Grace Museum on Wednesday.

Eric J. Shelton/Reporter-News Works of art from Jim-Ned High School students hang on the walls of the Grace Museum on Wednesday, February 27, 2013, in preparation for Youth Art Month. The exhibit will display more than 700 works of art from area grade-school students.

Eric J. Shelton/Reporter-News Hardin Simmons University senior Lauren Booher, 22, writes a thank-you note to D.W. Brooks, of the Tom Cheek Endowed Scholarship Fund, on Wednesday, February 27, 2013 in HSU's Moody Center, for being chosen as a recipient of the scholarship. Over the course of two days, nearly 200 HSU student scholarship recipients wrote thank-you notes to scholarship donors.$RETURN$$RETURN$

Thomas Metthe/Reporter-News A grackel takes off into the air as a group of the birds perch in a tree along S. 14th Street on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013.$RETURN$$RETURN$

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Thomas Metthe/Reporter-News A group of grackels perch on a tree as another flock flies over near S. 14th Street on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013.$RETURN$$RETURN$

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Ronald W. Erdrich/Reporter-News A maintenance crew works on a wind turbine blade near Maryneal Friday, Feb. 22, 2013. Infrastructure created for the wind energy expansion in the Big Country will benefit the latest boom surrounding the Cline Shale.$RETURN$$RETURN$

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Joy Lewis/Reporter-News Sydney Outlaw rehearses a scene as "Burton," in the opera, "The Casablanca Hotel," on Monday, February 25, 2013 at The Paramount.$RETURN$$RETURN$

Joy Lewis/Reporter-News Mark McCrory rehearses as scene as "Tom," in "The Casablanca Hotel," on Monday, February 25, 2013 at The Paramount.

Joy Lewis/Reporter-News Lynnette Chambers as "Lucy," rehearses a scene in the opera, "The Casablanca Hotel," on Monday, February 25, 2013 at The Paramount.$RETURN$$RETURN$

Joy Lewis/Reporter-News Igor Vieria runs through a scene playing "Raul," in the opera, "The Casablanca Hotel," on Monday, February 25, 2013 at The Paramount.$RETURN$$RETURN$

Joy Lewis/Reporter-News Lynnette Chambers as "Lucy," left, and Darla Diltz as "Tallulah" during a rehearsal of "The Casablanca Hotel," on Monday, February 25, 2013 at The Paramount.

Daniel Gomez/Special to the Reporter-News Three laundresses, played by Catherine Harrington, Kaitlin Sacco and Mikayla Tipps, who tale the story of King Midas, dance around the wine god Bacchus, played by Owen Beans, at the ACU Culp theatre as part of their performance of a modern rendition of Ovid's "Metamorphoses" on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013.

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Daniel Gomez/Special to the Reporter-News King Ceyx, played by Owen Beans, and his wife Queen Alcyone, played by Mikayla Tipps, share an intimate moment as she pleads with him not to travel across the sea as part of the ACU theatre performance of a modern rendition of Ovid's "Metamorphoses" at the Culp theatre on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013.

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Daniel Gomez/Special to the Reporter-News King Ceyx, played by Owen Beans, and his boat crew, including Catherine Harrington, voyage across the ocean to persue an oracle as part of the ACU theatre performance of a modern rendition of Ovid's "Metamorphoses" at the Culp theatre on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013.$RETURN$$RETURN$

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Daniel Gomez/Special to the Reporter-News The three laundresses, played by Kaitlin Sacco, Catherine Harrington and Mikayla Tipps, gather together as they narrate the tale of King Midas as the ACU theatre performes a modern rendition of Ovid's "Metamorphoses" at the ACU Culp theatre on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013.$RETURN$$RETURN$

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Daniel Gomez/Special to the Reporter-News King Ceyx, played by Owen Beans, and his boat crew are tossed about as they are downed by Posidon, played by Andrew Lang, during their ACU theatre performance of a modern rendition of Ovid's "Metamorphoses" at the Culp theatre on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013.